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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
this week's post is about voting and how it relates to building power and demanding reforms margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/voting-beg...
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 15/10/2026
The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Free access to my essay in Current History: online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...
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An Inheritance of Silence: Notes on Palestine
Silence can be inherited as surely as memory. A personal exploration of one Palestinian family’s hidden history uncovers unexpected connections across generations, revealing how private lives and poli...
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Justseeds Artists' Cooperative @justseeds.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New anti-Data Center graphics package just dropped on our free downloads page! justseeds.org/graphic/no-m...
Anti data center graphics package
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Think about how little your representatives have said or done to defend their colleague Ilhan Omar. Now try to imagine how little they will do when it's our turn.
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𝐋𝐲𝐝𝐢𝐚🧑🏾‍🩰🇬🇾🇱🇨🇧🇧 @lydiasalara.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026
pandemics lead to fascism leads to obsession with "health", which just means "skinny/thin" under white supremacist/European beauty standards, also "make the commoners weak again" = GLP 1 ads every 5 mins
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“These book challenges are happening in every corner of CT, and what I’m most concerned about is the quiet censorship that doesn’t make it into the news.” - Sam Lee, co-chair of the Intellectual Freedom Committee at the Connecticut Library Association. bit.ly/4hRAYQy #BannedBooksWeek
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It's Banned Books Week. For librarians that means soft censorship
Connecticut libraries are seeing an uptick in “soft censorship” of books that receive complaints or informal challenges from patrons.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 09/10/2026
Things are slowly heating up. While they are still simmering, it's a good time to review skills for street protests. Unfortunately, everyone should read "A Demonstrator’s Guide to Responding to Gunshot Wounds" in order to be prepared for a worst-case scenario. Hopefully, you'll never need it. 🤞
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A Demonstrator’s Guide to Responding to Gunshot Wounds
Even if you have no medical training, there are things you can do to maximize the likelihood that a person who is shot in your vicinity will survive.
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Britt 🎃 @liminalclown-e.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you’re really that sick you should be in the hospital” Please stop saying this to chronically ill people. If we went to the hospital every time we suffered, we would live there. Hospitals can’t help us and they often make us worse. We are on our own, and being subtly gaslit doesn’t help.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 08/10/2026
To do this through a dissociative medium that already trains us to think of its contents as less real. As so much entertainment. So much content. It is not merely immoral, but the screaming, atavistic *absence* of morality--not coincidentally this defines Hegseth's entire approach to the Pentagon.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Exciting news from the Center for Institutional Courage! They launched a DARVO database, which tracks peer-reviewed academic studies about the concept. DARVO is an acronym that describes the way perpetrators respond to confrontations about their violence: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.
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The Courage Brief - October 2026 Article Two | Center for Institutional Courage
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 31/10/2023
B.R.F.R.O.
Tumblr post from wolvensnothere

B.R.F.R.O.

To all unwanted entities in this space: Fuck Right Off.
To all unwelcomed beings in my sphere: Fuck Right Off.
To all hateful processes in my self: Fuck Right Off.
To all disruptive methodologies in my heart: Fuck Right Off.
From everything in me: Fuck Right Off.
From Everything I Have: Fuck Right Off.
From all that I seek to build: Fuck Right Off.
To everything you are: Fuck Right Off.
I see you, you piece of shit: Fuck Right Off.
I know what you tried to do. Fuck Right Off.
You are not welcome here: Fuck Right Off.
You Will Not Survive Me.
So Fuck Right Off.
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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The best data I’ve seen, and this is speaking conservatively, suggests 1 in 60 so-called mild Covid infections leads to ME/CFS (see the “acute infected” cohort in figure 1 here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...). Pairing that w/the picture of ME/CFS that UNREST paints is a risk worth mitigating.
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Incidence and Prevalence of Post-COVID-19 Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: A Report from the Observational RECOVER-Adult Study - Journal of General Internal Medicine
Background Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) may occur after infection. How often people develop ME/CFS after SARS-CoV-2 infection is unknown. Objective To determine the inci...
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s obviously extremely easy to hurt men’s tender feelings when we talk about rape culture (we’re talking about them or their buddies after all) but what will it take to make them feel afraid?
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Jaymar Thee Author @jaymarjackson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hey yall. Times have hit me really hard and I’m against the wall. Literally. If you can donate I would really appreciate it. gofund.me/c02aeaa55
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Donate to Help Cover Bill Payments and a Rebuilt Transmission, organized by Jamaris Jackson
Hey yall so as I’m writing this there’s a knot in my stomach but… Jamaris Jackson needs your support for Help Cover Bill Payments and a Rebuilt Transmission
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Remora House DC @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
HELP KEEP OUR FRIEND HOUSED! A dear friend & organizer lost her job & needs help making rent on the first. $1,037 to go by October 1st! Please donate & share! Venmo: @CharitySade C*shApp: $CharitySade
ID: graphic with a photo of a very cute little dog playing in the grass in the background. A yellow speech bubble has been added to look as though the dog is saying "help keep my mom housed, y'all!". Text at the bottom on a bright yellow pointy text bubble with turquoise outline reads "A Black, disabled, queer femme and dear friend and comrade of FTP recently lost her job and needs urgent assistance to cover rent/utilities by 10/1. She is not eligible for unemployment and cannot currently meet the new (bs) requirements for SNAP benefits. Let's get her the rest of the way to her goal!!!Goal: $835/1872. Venmo: @ charitysade, cashapp: $charitysade
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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 29/09/2026
NPR giving fascism the neutral journalism gloss, exhibit #98765
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Can parents opt their children out of a transgender teacher’s class? Here’s what courts say
Parents who want to take their children out of a transgender teacher's class at a Wake County elementary school say they weren't given the option — and they're arguing it's their right. They cite rece...
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Mad Crip Moss @mossybear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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JD (by way of Blacksky) @jdot.blacksky.team · 24/09/2026
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samanthAAAH! riedel @samanthawrites.net · 23/09/2026
"Disability activists warned for years that this would be the outcome of allowing COVID-19 to spread unmitigated. Now that it’s time to pay the piper, the state and its media allies are working desperately to sever the connection between COVID-19 and its consequences."
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Headed to NYU Langone
A large pink hand-lettered sign. The text reads, “Trans lives are not bargaining chips”
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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Four years ago today, President Biden said, "The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID." At the time, we were in the 5th COVlD wave. We're now in the 13th.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hey so uhhhhh that Boston Globe story about the lesbian bar relaxing its covid rules is an *absolute fucking hit piece* targeting the disabled, chronically ill, and covid-conscious and it would be great if folks sharing and joking about it could recognize that framing.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One of the basic points in Mills' The Racial Contract (originally published in 1997!) was that, if nothing else, White Supremacy deserves to be taken seriously as one of the great motivating ideologies of modernity and it's bizarre that political philosophers are so disinclined to treat it as such.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Here's a zine-length introduction theanarchistlibrary.org/library/stra...
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Life Without Law
Strangers In a Tangled Wilderness Life Without Law An introduction to anarchist politics Fall 2013, revised 2024 The first edition was published in 2013....
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betsy ladyzhets 😷 @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today @thesicktimes.org: We republished a recent piece by Julia Doubleday at The Gauntlet, pushing back on a much-derided ableist article in The Telegraph. "The state and its media allies are working desperately to sever the connection between COVID-19 and its consequences."
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COVID-19 — not TikTok — is disabling young women - The Sick Times
The Telegraph published an article titled, “How having a disability became cool." This article shores up the government narrative that rising rates of disability are being driven, not by the ongoing a...
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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 21/09/2026
"If you are new(er) to thinking critically about how to operationalize suicide prevention beyond sharing a phone number to call if at risk to oneself, it looks like robust investments in abolition, harm reduction, mutual aid, etc., all of which are aligned with the Disability Justice framework."🫂
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Will You Please Invest (More) in Disability Justice Work to Operationalize Suicide Prevention?
For Suicide Prevention Month, the author continues to reckon with the costs of Access Intimacy Abuse at the hands of Makai Livingstone, the founder of Embodied Support Services, as she deconstructs ho...
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
me, left behind them, on gen ai
bilbo smoking his pipewormtongue
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Durham County Department of Public Health (DCoDPH) @durhamhealthnc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
As COVID-19 cases continue to increase, it's important to know accurate information about COVID-19 in order to protect yourself and others! Get the facts about common myths, and take steps to protect yourself and others.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Semi regular reminder that when (white) men declare the end of humanity they usually mean the end of their dominance.
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JK ✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Do the thing that you can do. Whatever it is, wherever you are. The thing you actually do, however small, is of infinite more value than the most grand perfect thing you imagine but do not do.
Acrylic painting of a chicken holding bolt cutters. It says, embrace diversity of tactics.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
NEW: Guest post from almost-Rabbi Ben Luks-Morgan: "We who transition into new names, new identities we have always been here in Jewish being and text. Transgender people have always been here. Queer people. Those who don’t quite fit the normative boundaries of Self-- have always been here."
lifeisasacredtext.com
We Have Always Been Here
A Guest Post By Erev-Rabbi Benjamin Luks-Morgan
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This from @uminnpress.bsky.social promises to be excellent — a perfect example of the importance of regional presses!
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American Occupation
A collection of intimate writings first published by Literary Hub in the Letters From Minnesota series that recounts the lived community experience of facing...
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⊹.🎃₊˚𖦹⋆spookiki ⋆⁺₊🧿.˚⊹ @yourmotherxo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
To be an artist. Make some art > does it look terrible? > yes / no > you are an artist > make more art
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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 12/09/2026
"Meanwhile, what’s really existential is AI powering autonomous weapons, killing machines, that are actually being used in warfare... This machine-god narrative is, in my opinion, meant to distract us from these."
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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Indigenous people are defying Canada's anti-LGBTQ+ laws and offering a safe haven for trans people on their land globalnews.ca/news/1205333...
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Alberta First Nation invokes treaty clause to set up gender-affirming care safe haven | Globalnews.ca
Saddle Lake Cree Nation says it aims to defy Premier Danielle Smith’s government by establishing a safe haven for gender-affirming medical care — contrary to provincial law.
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Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'm a bit sick of people on this site suggesting that the anti-AI position is a kneejerk purity test. It's possible that it is, indeed, very principled, and that the socialist, pro-worker position is one of abolition, not control.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“I want us to be able to hear one another. And I want us to treat our allies' and potential allies' tears as worthy of compassion even when we do not believe the person being mourned is worthy of their tears.” A really thoughtful and wise piece by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social:
organizingmythoughts.org
Grief Is Not a Verdict: This Is Not Really an Essay About Gloria Steinem
We grieve the worlds we’ve known and what it felt like to live in them.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Asked in a Bills women’s group for advice on the most Covid-safe area of a football stadium (least crowded, most ventilation) and I was told “Please stay home if you have this many concerns.” This is how ableds view the disabled: You don’t deserve to leave the house. Don’t make us perceive you.
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ReadingDanger @readingdanger.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What's the deal with boycotting Harry Potter? A thread and freely printable pamphlet to inform offline people. No AI. Pamphlet & refs here: www.friendlyexplanation.com Why have so many Harry Potter fans stopped putting money in J.K. Rowling’s pocket? Because she proudly spends it on harming kids.
Trifold pamphlet cover. What's the deal with... Boycotting Harry Potter. A friendly explanation. Person surrounded by pink and blue ribbon holding a small trans flag like it's a magic wand.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The single most important thing to understand about digital futurism is this: When the tech barons’ predictions about the future fail to come true, they don’t have to give the money back.
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Julie Setele @juliesetele.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
New free zine alert!! *Hot Flash Riot, Volume 1: WTF Is a Menopunk?* is the first issue of a new zine, created by the Menopunks Discord server community. We are a space for people of ALL GENDERS who are experiencing peri/menopause.
Cover of the zine “Hot Flash Riot, vol. 1: WTF Is a Menopunk?”; background image of monochromatic flames Text says “free zine,” “gender-diverse experiences of menopause,” and “16 pages of art and writing” over a background image of monochromatic flames
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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
People who wear an n95 in public to protect their communities, reject ableism, resist fascism, and build a better world are, in fact, super hot and punk as fuck.
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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I am grateful for mask-required events. But what I want is community that recognizes that disability justice is foundational to other forms of justice. I want community that is willing to do hard things for collective liberation. And that’s not most people, even at a mask-required event.
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Prism @prismreports.org · 10/08/2026
Today is the anniversary of the killings of journalists Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa, & Mohammed Noufal. Shaimaa Eid reflects on the incalculable loss of her colleagues: "The occupation does not stop at killing bodies; it seeks to assassinate the truth."
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Farewell to Anas, Mohammed, and the companions of truth
In Gaza, the journalist has become a direct target. Carrying a camera here is like wearing a mark on your forehead that reads, “Kill me”
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Black Lives Matter Every Single Day @fatnewsdaily.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Whiteness is the exchange of culture for power. Once you understand this, it's easy to see how being in the "dominant culture" means absolving oneself of identity grounded in meaningful human connection. Why does this matter? Lynching.
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